A man is facing eight felony and misdemeanor charges after investigators said he was caught transporting stolen fuel in Nassau County.
Juan Carlos Chapelin Marcos was arrested on suspicion of organized retail fuel theft activities by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement.
According to Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson, OALE officers spotted a pickup truck pulling a white utility trailer bypass an agricultural inspection station near the Florida-Georgia border in Nassau County. Officers said the containers were not permanently fixed to the trailer and had no hazmat placards or any other type of identifying markings. Officers also found a dispensing pump and tubing connected to the bulk containers and threaded through a hole in the nose of the trailer connected to the undercarriage of the pickup truck it was hitched to.
“I am proud of the continued hard work of our Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement to keep our roadways and communities safe by bringing to justice criminals who are brazenly stealing from and defrauding Florida’s businesses,”Simpson said in a news release. “We will continue to work collaboratively with our law enforcement and fuel retail partners to combat organized retail fuel theft rings, which are hurting Florida’s businesses and consumers.
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